Quotes with sophistry

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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  ― John Adams
  President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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• Men of great conversational powers almost universally practice a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

  ― Thomas B. Macaulay
  American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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• Sophistry is only fit to make men more conceited in their ignorance.

  ― John Locke
  English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversational
• exaggeration
• themselves
• conceited
• ignorance
• deceives

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